The Conflict Box

Dec 22, 2024 | Blog, Method, WIP, Writing

Continuing on with the theme of conflict (because I’ve been having so much trouble resolving the conflict in the book I’m writing and because the book I’m editing doesn’t have nearly enough), I was recently reminded of the conflict box....

World Conflict (in fiction)

Dec 15, 2024 | Blog, Writing, Writing Craft

How interesting is your world? Is it interesting enough that you would want to live there? Too interesting that it would terrify you to do so? I recently heard about someone who created a world so dull that she didn’t even want to create her story anymore (it was a...

What’s a Plotter to do?

Dec 8, 2024 | Blog, WIP, Writing

I am a die-hard believer in plotting. For the way my mind works there is no other way to write. But what to do when plotting doesn’t work? I’ve tried writing by the seat of my pants and always end up plotting a few scenes in advance, the major turning points of the...

This Story Right Now

Dec 1, 2024 | Blog, Method, Writing

Writing a novel is not only multifaceted, complicated endeavor, it’s also a lot of fun! But one of the lessons I have come away with in my twenty year career is that no two books are the same. You don’t write them the same way, you don’t plot them the same way, hell,...

Is SuperNotes Super for Authors?

Nov 24, 2024 | Blog, Business of Writing, Method

I can hardly believe I am trying out yet another system for keeping track of my characters and my plot, and yet… I recently heard of a relatively newcomer to the PKMS scene (that’s Personal Knowledge Management Systems, just to remind you). The developers were very...

Intuitive Editing: A Review

Nov 17, 2024 | Blog, Method, Writing, Writing Craft

One in an occasional series of writing book reviews. Today, I’ll talk about Intuitive Editing by Tiffany Martin. I came across this book when I went to the home of a fellow author who was hosting a write-in. She had very cleverly put out all of her craft books...